Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.

The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...

Five years after COVID-19 prompted a surge in demand for deliveries, are conditions any better for the couriers who do this tough job in all weathers? Delivery riders in Germany have been striking ...

The latest news and opinion about Bulgaria politics and society. Breaking news on the current Bulgaria’s political situation and governmental proceedings.

Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...

Violent extremism in the region is not only powered by ethnic tensions but by complex financial networks – which authorities are doing little to disrupt.

Kosovo Liberation Army veterans and others held a protest in Pristina against the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, accusing it of bias and of attempting to 'rewrite history'.